i have been listening to a song lately that is old, but a favorite. "i will follow you into the dark" by deathcab for cutie expresses one sentiment that i have been mulling around in my mind for quite some time now. that sentiment being that fear is deeply rooted in love.
i guess for the first time in my life i'm embracing the beauty of that. it sounds scary, and is, but within the risk of love, there lies a depth of reward that i think spans far outside our comprehension level. i'm not even talking solely about romantic love.
faith encompasses the same ideal. we take a risk in trusting ourselves to a Creator that is intangible. but, i believe in taking that risk, we allow ourselves to engage Divinity. i believe we allow the innate part of our being that yearns for something outside of itself to flourish. i believe we usher in whatever part of ourselves it is that lets us hope.
and i don't know about you, but i need that. i need hope. i need to hope in God enough to trust. i need to hope in a lover enough to trust. i need to hope that whoever i am is enough. i need to hope that whatever has been done to me is something i can let go. i need to hope in something that tells me it is okay to learn to love myself.
i need to hope in something that tells me it is okay to love others, intimately and dangerously.
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interesting post. I think I agree with everything but the title. Perhaps i misunderstood, but to me the beauty is found in overcoming the fear. Fear is what prevents love and what keeps people apart. I think were thinking the same thing though. Great song, by the way!
Hi. I'm Weston. I'm Ryan's friend.
Now that we are acquainted, I'll comment. Have you ever read The Problem Of Pain by C.S. Lewis? He deals pretty heavily with this exact topic (the part about actually taking the step to relate with the intangible) in the beginning of the book. So if you haven't read it, you should check it out.
Fear, I believe, is an integral part because it defines love. The fact that there is a negative part allows us to understand exactly what it is. Since there is something to lose(assuming we perceive it), we are more likely to appreciate what is there. This falls to the age old, "Without darkness, there is no light. Without cold, no heat" etc. These things become what they are because they have an opposite. These things would merely "be" without the opposite. The same thing goes with hope. Hope is a wonderful thing, but hope is always utterly entangled in doubt. It is hope rewarded that helps overcome these doubts or in how great we perceive the reward from what we doubt to be truth but hope for. This is why doubt is so tied in to the intangible. We can only trust our beliefs and have no "tangible" evidence until it is too late to back down. The perceived hope is what reigns true in most humans' hearts.
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